Nai Pan Hla
{{Short description|Burmese anthropologist and researcher (1923–2010)}}
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Nai Pan Hla ({{langx|my|နိုင်ပန်းလှ}}, {{langx|mnw|နာဲပါန်လှ}}; 1923 – 18 June 2010) was a Burmese historian and cultural anthropologist of Mon descent. Throughout his career, he published many works on Mon ethnography, including the best-seller The Struggle of Rajadhiraj.{{Cite web |last= |date=2010-06-21 |title=Historically significant author and Mon scholar Dr. Nai Pan Hla passes away |url=https://monnews.org/2010/06/21/historically-significant-author-and-mon-scholar-dr-nai-pan-hla-passes-away/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=IMNA |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Lawi Weng |date=2010-06-21 |title=Mon Cultural Anthropologist Passes Away |url=https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=18771 |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=The Irrawaddy}}
Early life and education
Pan Hla was born in March 1923 in Kawkareik Township, British Burma to Nai Jawt and Mi Cho. He earned bachelors, law, and doctorate degrees from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles.
Career
In 1953, he joined the Ministry of Culture's archaeological department, serving as an official of Mon literature and culture. He published the best-seller Struggle of Rajadhiraj, about Razadarit, in 1977.
In 1992, he published Eleven Mon Dhammasattha Texts.{{Cite web |title=Nai Pan Hla |url=https://angkordatabase.asia/authors/nai-pan-hla |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Angkor Database |language=en-GB}} In 1994, he became a professor at Meio University in Okinawa, Japan, where he taught Southeast Asian literature and history, and returned to Myanmar in 1998. He published A Short Mon History in 2013.
Death
Publications
- A Short Mon History (2013)
- Struggle of Rajadhiraj (1977)
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Category:20th-century Burmese historians
Category:21st-century Burmese historians
Category:People from Kayin State
Category:Historians of Southeast Asia